Word: pregnant
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Even though the Administration is now optimistic about ratification (and polls show a majority of the public in favor), the two amendments will not quell significant opposition. Republican Moderate Robert Griffin of Michigan, who has taken on the job of managing the opposition, denounced the treaties last week as "pregnant with the seeds of acrimony and strife ... fatally flawed and riddled with ambiguity." Senator John Stennis of Mississippi warned that the transfer would cost more than $1 billion. Reagan joined in with a nationwide TV address in which he claimed that the treaties might result in the loss...
Finally, not only do I know nothing about it, but I don't even like snow, a distaste that goes back to that afternoon in seventh grade when the class bully hit me in the nose with a snowball the size of a pregnant Swedish meatball because I wouldn't let him copy my math homework. I particularly don't like this snow. Now it's one thing for the snow to cause this week to be canceled. (It will be replayed at a later date). It's one thing for the snow to cause the hot water...
...bistre, a windmill facing the estuary from an old bulwark of Amsterdam. Nor could they rival the depth of Rembrandt's grasp of gesture, expression and character. A drawing like Saskia 's Lying-in Room evokes, in the space between the shadowed head of Rembrandt's pregnant wife and the sewing hands of her nurse, a domestic silence so intense that one can almost hear the tick of cooling embers in the grate. Once again the Morgan Library, eschewing the theatrics with which other museums are apt to present their loan shows, has come up with...
...Rodgers and the older faces in the company. The joyous encounter between Deedee and Emma takes a bitter turn when Deedee contrasts the varied fates that have befallen them following their climactic competition for the same career-launching part in the ballet Anna Karenina. Emma reminds Deedee, "You got pregnant," and the housewife-instructor retorts, "And you got 19 curtain calls...
...Tony and some friends are driving over the Verrazano bridge, a favorite latenight haunt. Stephanie has just dumped Tony, telling him she never really loved him, that she was only trying out "her act" on him. Bobby, the youngest of Tony's gang, is despondent because his girlfriend is pregnant. Everyone is very drunk, and Bobby starts walking up on the bridge's restraining rail. In a scene that shoots for terrifying and disturbing, but only winds up depressing and irritating, Bobby falls off the bridge and drowns. Tony walks all night and the next morning shows up at Stephanie...